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Dear Florida, There are a lot of things I love about you. The winter weather. The splendor of your marshes and coastlines. The diversity of culture. But I'll be honest. When it comes to education, you pretty much blow chunks. In our schools, the best things happen in spite of Tallahassee, not because of it. See, I love my son's world-history teacher. I trust my daughter's algebra teacher. I neither love nor trust you. Not when it comes to education, anyway. With you, kids are treated like political props. That would be bad enough. But right now, you're not even sure which political games you want to play with them. You love the FCAT. You hate the FCAT....

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Dear Florida,
There are a lot of things I love about you. The winter weather. The splendor of your marshes and coastlines. The diversity of culture.
But I'll be honest. When it comes to education, you pretty much blow chunks.
In our schools, the best...

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